Sony MC-P10 User Manual

4-645-934-11(1)

Personal Network Player

Operating Instructions

MC-P10

1999 Sony Corporation

Owner’s Record

The model is located on the battery compartment lid and serial numbers are located␣ inside of the battery compartment. Record the serial number in the space provided below. Refer to them whenever you call upon your Sony dealer regarding this product.

Model No. MC-P10 Serial No.______________

CAUTION

You are cautioned that any changes or modifications not expressly approved in this manual could void your authority to operate this equipment.

NOTE:

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference using one or more of the following measures:

– Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. – Increase the separation between the

equipment and receiver.

– Connect the equipment into an outlet on a

circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

– Consult the dealer or an experienced

radio/TV technician for help.

Declaration of Conformity

Trade Name: SONY Model No.: MC-P10 Responsible Party: Sony Electronics Inc. Address: 1 Sony Drive, Park Ridge, NJ 07656 USA Telephone No.: 201-930-6970 This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two

conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful

interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference

received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

On the supplied software

• Copyright laws prohibit reproducing the software or the manual accompanying it in whole or in part, or renting the software without the permission of the copyright holder.

• In no event will SONY be liable for any financial damage, or loss of profits, including claims made by third parties, arising out of the use of the software supplied with this player.

•In the event a problem occurs with this software as a result of defective manufacturing, SONY will replace it. However, SONY bears no other responsibility.

•The software provided with this player cannot be used with equipment other than that which is so designated.

•Please note that, due to continued efforts to improve quality, the software specifications may be changed without notice.

• Operation of this player with software other than that provided is not covered by the warranty.

Program  1999 Sony Corporation Documentation  1999 Sony Corporation

Sony, VAIO and the VAIO logo, Music Clip,

OpenMG and the OpenMG logo are trademarks of Sony Corporation.

IBM and PC/AT are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.

Microsoft, Windows and the Windows 98 logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

MMX and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation.

CD-related data through the Internet from the CDDB Music CD Database.

CDDB-Enabled, CDDB, CDDB 2 and the CDDB Logo are trademarks of CDDB, Inc.

All other trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.

Notes

• The recorded music is limited to private use

only. Use of the music beyond this limit requires permission of the copyright holders.

• Sony is not responsible for music files that

are not saved on your computer due to unsuccessful CD Record or EMD downloading.

• Your Music Clip and associated OpenMG

software is not equipped with a Back-up/ Restore function. Sony is not responsible for deletion of music files from your computer during a system crash or while you restore your computer’s hard disk using the recovery CD(s).

Table of contents

Overview 4

What you can do with the Music

Clip Personal Network

Player 4 Copyright protection 5 System requirements 6

About this manual 7

Using the OpenMG Jukebox Help

Getting started

Unpacking 8 Parts and Controls 9 Installing the OpenMG Jukebox 10

Uninstalling the OpenMG Jukebox

Inserting the battery 12 Using the neck strap 13

Basic operation

Using the Music Clip Player 14

Connecting the Music Clip Player

to your computer 14 Starting the OpenMG Jukebox 14 OpenMG Jukebox basic controls 14 Recording a CD on your computer

16 Transferring the songs to the

Music Clip Player (Check out)

17 Playing songs on the Music Clip

Player 18 Using the display information 19

Additional operations

Playing songs repeatedly (MODE)

20 Changing the equalizer (EQ) 21 Limiting the maximum volume level

with Auto Volume Limiter

System (AVLS) 22 Locking controls (Hold) 22

Additional information

Precautions 23 Specifications 24 Getting Help 25 Troubleshooting 26

Frequently Asked Questions

(FAQs) 27 Restrictions on the copyright

protection by OpenMG 29 Terminology 31 Limited Warranty Statement 33 Index 38

Overview

What you can do with the Music Clip Personal Network Player

The Music Clip Player is a portable audio player that allows you to easily transfer digital sound data from your computer to the Music Clip Player.

The OpenMG technology allows you to enjoy digital music, while maintaining the copyrights of its holders.

The OpenMG-compliant application software that is supplied with your Music Clip Player enables you to store digital music data on your computer’s hard disk and transfer it to the Music Clip Player.

EMD services

Music Clip

Player

The supplied OpenMG Jukebox software allows you to import digital sound data as follows:

– downloads sound data provided by Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) services over digital networks such as the Internet,

– records audio CDs onto the hard disk of your computer (the imported songs are encoded in ATRAC3 or MP3 format),

– converts the existing MP3 and WAV format audio files into OpenMG format. (WAV format audio files are converted into ATRAC3 format, and MP3 format audio files are converted into ATRAC3 format or encoded without changing the format.)

The OpenMG Jukebox encrypts sound data in OpenMG format and stores it on the hard disk of your computer to prevent unauthorized distribution.

The copyright protection technology of the Music Clip Player conforms to the SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) specifications.

connection

Audio CDs

USB

WAV3, MP3

files

Hard disk of your computer (OpenMG Jukebox)

The Music Clip Player has some restrictions on recording and playback to protect copyrights.

For details, see “Restrictions on the copyright protection by OpenMG” on page 29.

What is OpenMG?

OpenMG is a copyright protection technology used when recording and playing back audio data on computers. OpenMG encrypts and saves digital audio data on a computer’s hard disk, and allows the audio data to be played back on that computer only, protecting it from being illegally delivered over a network.

Transfer of sound data from your computer to the Music Clip Player (Check in/out)

The supplied application software (OpenMG Jukebox) enables you to transfer the sound data stored on your computer’s hard disk to the Music Clip Player (Check out) and transfer it from the Music Clip Player to your computer (Check in).

Check in/out restrictions: – You cannot check out the same song more than three times (excluding

certain songs). However, if you transfer a checked out song back to your computer (Check in), you can then check out the song again.

– You cannot check in songs checked out to the Music Clip Player to any computer other than the computer used for the Check out.

For details, see “Terminology” on page 31.

Restrictions on sound data

Some sound data is distributed with restrictions on recording or playback of the data to maintain of its holders’ copyright.

For example, songs which have playback period restrictions can be played back only within the given period of time.

System requirements

• IBM PC/AT and compatibles CPU: MMX

above recommended) Hard disk drive space: 20 MB and above RAM: 64 MB and above CD-ROM drive Audio output USB port

• Operating system: Windows

• Display: SVGA (800 × 600 pixel) (supports High Color (16 bit) and above)

• Internet access

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Pentium 233 MHz and above (Pentium II 400 MHz and

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About this manual

This manual explains how to operate the Music Clip Player. For details on how to use the supplied software (OpenMG Jukebox), refer to the software’s Help files.

The OpenMG Jukebox has two Help files, OpenMG Jukebox Help, which gives an overview of the software, and Music Clip Help, which explains how to use the Music Clip Player with the software.

Using the OpenMG Jukebox Help

To open the OpenMG Jukebox Help files from the Windows 98 Start menu, click Programs – OpenMG Jukebox – Help. To open the Music Clip Help files, click Programs – OpenMG Jukebox – Music Clip Help.

Selecting a topic from the contents

Click Help on the main menu of the OpenMG Jukebox, and then click Contents.

The Help Contents list appears. Select the desired topic.

Searching using a Keyword

1 To search using a Keyword, select the Index tab

from the Help dialog box.

The Keyword list appears.

2 Enter the keyword you want to apply, or scroll the

Keyword list.

3 Select a topic, then click Display.

Topics related to the keyword appear.

Getting started

Unpacking

Your Music Clip Player comes with the following items.

• Music Clip Player (1)

• Size AA (LR6) battery (1)

• Headphones (1)

• Neck strap (1)

• USB cable (1)

• CD-ROM (OpenMG Jukebox installation disc) (1)

• Operating Instructions (1)

Parts and controls

Refer to the page numbers indicated in parentheses for details.

123

1 VOL (volume) +/– (page 18) 2 Display (page 19) 3 SHIFT button (pages 20, 21) 4 N/x button (page 18) 5 ./> (EQ/MODE) buttons

(pages 18, 20, 21)

6 Battery compartment (page

12)

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7 Strap holder (page 13) 8 HOLD switch (page 22) 9 Headphones jack (page 18) 0 AVLS switch (page 22) qa USB connector (page 14) qs Clip

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Installing the OpenMG Jukebox

This section describes how to install the OpenMG Jukebox to your computer. Before installation, turn on your computer, and start Windows 98.

Notes

• Be sure to install the OpenMG Jukebox before connecting the Music Clip Player.

• Do not delete, move, or change contents of the installation folder since OpenMG Jukebox uses this folder.

1 Insert the supplied CD-ROM into the CD-ROM

drive of your computer. The Setup program automatically starts and the installation begins.

2 Follow the instructions in the Installer window to

complete the installation. When the CD key input dialog appears, input the

number shown on the CD-ROM case. When the installation is finished,

the desktop.

appears on

3 Remove the CD-ROM from the CD-ROM drive.

When installer does not work

Depending on your computer setting, the installer may not start automatically when you insert the software CD-ROM. You may also start installation by selecting My Computer from the Start menu, and then double-clicking Setup.exe on the CD-ROM drive icon display.

“Music Clip-Registration” icon on the desktop

When you restart your computer after installing the software, “Music Clip-Registration” icon will appear on the desktop. Make sure that you can connect to the Internet, then double-click this icon to register yourself for the repertoires and EMD services. For details on the customer registration, refer to the supplied leaflet “Customer Registration for VAIO Music Clip.”

Caution

To protect your personal data, we use SSL (an encryption protocol) for communication between your browser and our WWW server. If you are accessing from inside of an enterprise LAN, you may not use SSL due to the proxy server of the LAN. Contact your network administrator in this case.

EMD services

To use OpenMG-enabled EMD services on the Internet, the following condition is required.

• You need to be accessible to the Internet from your computer. Sign up an Internet service provider and prepare an Internet-accessible environment before using this service.

• You need to download several free programs (e.g., EMD key installer) from the EMD Web page.

Double-click the Music Clip-Registration icon, then follow

the displayed instructions. (You can register yourself for the EMD service also by double-clicking this icon.)

• You need to register yourself for the EMD service

provider you are going to use. Consult the provider for details.

For previous OpenMG Jukebox users

1 If you want to register yourself as the user of the

previous version, do it first. (You may skip this step if you have already done registration or you do not want to register yourself as the user of the previous version).

2 Use the delivered CD-ROM to update* OpenMG

Jukebox. Be sure to perform this step to add drivers necessary for the new version.

* You can use old files you previously recorded from

CDs or downloaded from EMD services.

3 After update has been done, double-click Web

Registration icon on the desktop to register yourself as the user of the new version.

Uninstalling the OpenMG Jukebox

1 From the Windows 98 Start menu, select Settings,

and then click Control Panel. The Control Panel window appears.

2 Double-click Add/Remove Programs.

The Add/Remove Programs dialog box appears.

3 Click OpenMG Jukebox from the list box, and click

Add/Remove.

Inserting the battery

Insert the size AA (LR6) battery (supplied) matching the + and – ends on the battery to those inside the battery compartment.

Note

If you do not use the battery correctly, it may cause damage from leakage and corrosion. Please follow the directions below:

- Make sure the polarity is correct.

- Do not charge a dry cell battery.

- If you do not intend to use the player for an extended period of time, remove the battery.

- If you have battery leakage, replace with a new battery after cleaning the battery compartment.

When to replace the battery

Replace the battery when the battery indicator on the display (page 19) reads empty (t).

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